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[Emily] Dickinson, our supreme poet of inwardness.
Joyce Carol Oates
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Joyce Carol Oates
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: June 16
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The folly of war is that it can have no natural end except in the extinction an entire people.
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God's blessing is not always to be distinguished from His wrath.
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The worst thing: to give yourself away in exchange for not enough love.
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Loneliness is like starvation: you don't realize how hungry you are until you begin to eat.
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I read books. Avidly, ardently! As if my life depended upon it.
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I don't think that writer's block exists really. I think that when you're trying to do something prematurely, it just won't come. Certain subjects just need time, as I've learned over and over again. You've got to wait before you write about them.
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I think what distresses me most in my life is that I have so many ideas I consider exciting ideas that I will never live to execute because it takes me so long to execute.
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It's always a challenge to discover the most effective first sentence, and the most effective final sentence, in a chapter for instance, and in the book as a whole.
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She examined me, she looked at me critically and said, Why are you trying to starve yourself? To keep myself from feeling love, from feeling lust, from feeling anything at all.
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The only people who claim that money is not important are people who have enough money so that they are relieved of the ugly burden of thinking about it.
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I always tell my students the same thing. And that's to live life, and to read very voraciously without any definite program. To travel, to meet people, to talk to people, to listen very carefully, and not interrupt, but listen to their own grandparents speak of their families.
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I don't feel I write fast. I write in longhand and do so much revision. On the page, it's so old-fashioned. I could write a whole novel on scrap paper, scribbles and things. I keep looking at it and something develops. For me, using a word processor would mean staring at a screen for too many hours.
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The best revenge is living well without you.
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